NEW JERSEY
POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETYFounded 1972

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THE NEW JERSEY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY was established in 1972, to study and explore the many aspects of New Jersey postal history.

The society produces a quarterly award winning journal in electronic and hardcopy format, which publishes articles on a variety of subjects relating to this theme. Join the Society and receive NJPHS as a benefit!

May 2015 Issue of the NJPH Journal LINCOLN FUNERAL TRAIN PASSES THROUGH NEW JERSEY by Jean Walton

The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, and only one week later, our 16th President was
dead from an assassin’s bullet. This mourning cover for Lincoln, part of the Richard
Micchelli Collection, was sent unpaid to Switzerland from Newark on May 26, 1865, with
deficiency markings.

One hundred fifty years ago, President Lincoln’s death overwhelmed this country with
grief. He died on April 15, after having been shot by Booth at the Ford Theater the evening
before – a story familiar to most Americans.Read the complete article and more in our Galleries..

The Webmasters Spin, or a Glimpse of our Garden State.The history of "The Jerseys" is a fascinating chronology of the people that inhabit a diverse landscape, whose geology runs from the Appalachian Valley and Kittatinny Ridge in the mountainous north-west corner of the state to the sandy peninsular Cape May in the south-east; from the Palisades in the north and Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay in the north-east through the Great Pine Barrens to the river forests and lowlands along the Delaware River and Bay in the south.

Since colonial times, the state was key to communications and commerce between two of the largest cities in British North America, Philadelphia and New York City.
During the Revolutionary War and after independence was won, Americans set about to galvanize a new nation. East and West Jersey joined to form the third state ratifying the new constitution. New Jersey remained the crossroads of communications and commerce between the nation's first capital, Philadelphia and it's second capital, New York City. People poured into the state. Towns became cities. Indian trails became highways. Mail delivered by post riders became mail delivered by rail - even dirigible.

Now mail has become email, and collectors like myself wax nostalgic for bits and pieces of the old days. The days when your mailman stopped for an ice tea and and neighborhood gossip. Alas, long gone. Another chapter in the book of our collective lives. BUT, towns long turned to dust, roads long vanished from the maps, and the people that lived where we live now all beckon the philatelist and contemporary postal history collector. Learning from the items of yesteryear, as well as from fellow enthusiasts - that's the New Jersey Postal History Society. Join us and share your stories and research, your oral histories, your collecting interests. This is the website we want to create - with your help!